Crystal: Warm summer greetings from the American Swedish Institute (ASI)! As you know, ASI is a museum and cultural center located in Minneapolis’ Phillips West neighborhood with a mission to serve as a gathering space for all people to share experiences around themes of culture, migration, the environment and the arts, informed by enduring links to Sweden.

It is our pleasure to host this fall Mohamud Mumin’s exhibit, Sketches of Cedar Riverside, which combines photographs, video, object and recorded soundscapes in a sensory approach that conveys the rich history of Minneapolis’ West Bank. This eclectic Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis was once part of Mni Sota Makoce, the historic homeland of the Dakota people. It has been a home and a shared geography to many newcomers to America including Swedish and, more recently, East African immigrants.

We will host a freeexhibit reception on Wednesday, August 23 from 6-8 p.m. at ASI. ASI would like to invite you and members of the West Phillips community to participate in this reception, view the exhibit, and explore ASI’s other exhibits.

I am attaching an exhibit flier for your use. Please feel free to distribute reception and exhibit information as it best fits your needs.

Thank you in advance for sharing Mohamud Mumin’s wonderful exhibit with your community. Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance. Tack!

Peavey Park

Community celebrates beginning of major improvements coming soon to Peavey Park

Basketball courts, playground among the major investments in a two-phase construction project

A gathering at Peavey Park yesterday celebrated a milestone for a park improvements project, which got a major boost in funding from the 20-Year Neighborhood Park Plan (NPP20), approved last year.

Supporters at the event included neighborhood residents and park users, staff and District 3 Commissioner Scott Vreeland from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB), representatives from local neighborhood organizations, and Ward 6 City Council Member Abdi Warsame.

Over the last few months Metro Transit staff criss-crossed the city attending community events to talk about the D Line. One highlight was on Sunday May 7th, staff spent the day celebrating the arrival of spring and gathering feedback on the shores of Powderhorn Lake. We talked to almost 200 community members about the proposed D Line and potential station locations in nearby neighborhoods.

In the Powderhorn and Central neighborhoods most people felt like the station should be located at 34th Street or 35th Street. Residents and visitors remarked on the proximity to schools, the park, local stores and the Pillsbury Theater.

Potential station locations between Lake and Franklin generated less consensus amongst community members. Due to the large number of destinations, particularly the hospitals, every intersection received positive comments as a potential station location. Planners expect there to be two or three D Line stations to be located on Chicago between Franklin Avenue and Lake Street.

Red Light, Green Light

One way transit speeds will be improved in the Chicago-Emerson/Fremont corridor is through “Transit Signal Priority” or “TSP”. TSP is technology where Metro Transit buses can communicate with stoplights to extend green lights.

For example, a bus approaches an intersection where the walk countdown is in the single digits, instead of changing to yellow and then red the bus “asks” the stoplight if it can stay green for 10 more seconds or so. This allows the bus to move through the intersection instead of waiting at the red light. If this is repeated throughout a corridor there can be significant time savings for bus riders. Metro Transit customers can see it in action on many intersections along the A Line corridor.

TSP will be added to 31 stoplights along the Route 5 corridor in late 2017 and 2018. This will give the local route a boost while the rest of the rapid bus improvements are being planned. Riders can expect to save 1 to 3 minutes per trip between Downtown and 56th Street in South Minneapolis.

In Late June, Metro Transit staff surveyed over 130 people at the Chicago-Lake Transit Center. The goal was to learn how transit riders use and perceive the routes and facilities at Chicago-Lake. People were also asked what would make the transit center better.

Most people were fairly satisified with the local routes that run through the center, but thought the routes could be improved with faster service and larger buses to reduce crowding.

The survey results will become an important part of the Chicago-Lake Planning Study. Metro Transit is currently exploring alternatives to the Chicago-Lake Transit Center for the D Line. An option is to have a rapid bus station platform directly on Chicago Avenue to reduce delay from turning movements at the Chicago-Lake Transit Center.

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There’s still time to check out these farmer’s markets!

South Minneapolis farmer’s markets are pumping out fresh produce, crafts, and good eats. Have you stopped by this summer yet? That apple pie isn’t going to bake itself!TINY DINER FARMER’S MARKET
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This is a note for those who travel the Broadway Street Bridge that spans Interstate 94. Any help we can get spreading the word to neighborhood residents, employees, tenants and customers would be much appreciated. The closures are overnight and will be one direction at a time.

MnDOT plans two overnight closures of the Broadway Street Bridge over Interstate 94.